then the kernel-devel package is missing or buggy. Go back to step
1 or 2 and fix the problem.
-7a. On RHEL 5, to build the Open vSwitch kernel module, copy
- rhel/kmodtool-openvswitch-el5.sh into the RPM source directory and
- run:
-
- rpmbuild -bb --target=i686-unknown-linux \
- rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel5.spec
-
- You might have to specify a kernel version, e.g.:
-
- rpmbuild -bb -D "kversion 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5" \
- --target=i686-unknown-linux \
- rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel5.spec
-
- This produces a "kmod-openvswitch" RPM for each kernel variant,
- which is usually: "kmod-openvswitch", "kmod-openvswitch-xen", and
- "kmod-openvswitch-PAE".
-
-7b. On RHEL 6, to build the Open vSwitch kernel module, run:
+7. On RHEL 6, to build the Open vSwitch kernel module, copy
+ rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files into the RPM source directory and run:
rpmbuild -bb rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
in this example: "kmod-openvswitch", "kmod-openvswitch-debug", and
"kmod-openvswitch-kdump".
+A RHEL host has default firewall rules that prevent any Open vSwitch tunnel
+traffic from passing through. If a user configures Open vSwitch tunnels like
+GRE, VXLAN, LISP etc., they will either have to manually add iptables firewall
+rules to allow the tunnel traffic or add it through a startup script (Please
+refer to the "enable-protocol" command in the ovs-ctl(8) manpage).
+
Red Hat Network Scripts Integration
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